Social Conflict and Control, Protest and Repression (Italy)

Voce per l'Enciclopedia on line della Prima guerra mondiale: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War - Editor in chief Oliver Janz. - In the years 1914-1918, Italy was the scene of periodic waves of protest against the war. The particular form of the exceptional conditions and the mobilization were the cause and effect of social conflicts of unparalleled intensity compared to allied countries. Women played an important role in the movements which updated the content of the protests, shifting the objectives from the local to the national or supranational dimension. Opposition to military intervention became the common feature of the struggles which had arisen for different reasons and which tended to coalesce in the protest against the policy of civilian, rationing, industrial mobilization, and in the demands for land and work, without being able to unite politically.